DEADLINE:
Sunday, June 19, 2016
EXHIBITION DATES:
July 7-August 7, 2016
LOCATION:
Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA
CURATED BY:
Brett Henrikson
The Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville, MA) invites artists to participate in the curated exhibition, Mirror with a Memory: Alternative Process Photography in the 21st Century.
Mirror with a Memory is a show of works by the artists and craftsman who had taken back the chemical and physical qualities of the photographic medium. Photography as a medium has always been driven by the needs of the consumer, pushing companies to change to the medium to make their products faster, cheaper & easier. These changes were rarely dictated by the wants or demands of the artist, but for monetary concerns. Since the rise of digital imaging there has been a push back from a new generation of photographers that seek a tangible object; something that can be held, touched & treasured. We live in a flood of imagery, from Instagram feeds to Facebook, and most of us have come to fully embrace our cellphone screens as our primary means of grasping at the fleeting image; pressing “like” and letting it pass us by. These immaterial encounters with the digital have changed fine art photography for better or worse; the medium has shifted our consciousness from the print and to the screen. Never more has the physical photographic object stood out from the rest of the medium and declared itself art. Mirror with a Memory is a half juried, half curated show that will feature the works of not only established artists in the field but emerging ones as well.
We invite you to share your works with us.
All works with an alternative photographic component may be entered into the show including, but not limited to: Wet Plate Collodion, Experimental C-Prints, Manipulated Polaroids, Cyanotype, Vandyke, Albumen, Platinum, Digital-Alt Hybrid, 3D Works, Salt Prints, Encaustic, Experimental Silver Prints, ect.. If there are questions as to what constitutes “Alt Process” in the context of this show feel free to drop us a line.
GUIDELINES:
– $15 entry fee payable through PayPal
– A maximum of five pieces may be entered for consideration
– Submissions will be accepted through June 19, 2016
– The Nave Gallery will retain a 30% commission for work sold
– Artist is responsible for cost of shipping work to and from the gallery
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK:
-Send up to five artwork submissions as .jpg files to info@navegallery.org.
-Each .jpg should be 2200 pixels in the long dimension and named as “NAME_#.jpg” where # is the submission number and NAME is your last name
-Include an image list with your jpeg submission email, indicating submission number, title, size, process and year, as well as a brief artist bio and statement
-There is a $15 submission fee, payable through Paypal. Paypal is available here. Please include “Alt Process” in the note field
– Please indicate where you learned of the call
Accepted pieces should be delivered to the Nave Annex located in Davis Square (53 Chester St, Somerville, MA) ready to install.
CALENDAR:
Deadline for entries: Sunday, June 19, 2016
Notification: Thursday, June 23, 2016
Artwork drop-off: TBA
Exhibition dates: July 7-August 7, 2016
Opening reception: Thursday, July 7, 2016
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Brett Henrikson is an Artist-Photographer working in Providence Rhode Island. Brett graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and is based strongly in the craft and alchemy of the process. He believes that the hands on aspects of working in the darkroom and large format gives the artist a real sense of physical creation over their work. Photographic processes are his hammer and chisel, as he approaches the world and uses visual language to understand and reinterpret being. His main body of work “Chaotic Forms” uses the physicality of the photographic object in a new and unconventional way, as he creates large collodion contact prints from multiple cut geometric glass negatives. Henrikson has shown his work in galleries nationally as well as given numerous wet plate collodion demonstrations at institutions like RISD, AS220, the New England Archivist Symposium and the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio.
